location tracking Ignoring warrants, the Secret Service has been buying up location data from phone companies Thom Dunn
data dragnet How one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, thanks to Google's Geofence Warrants Thom Dunn
wireless carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon face FCC fines after probe finds they failed to protect user location data Xeni Jardin
every move you make New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow
convenient rationales Apple poses a false dichotomy between "privacy" and "competition" Cory Doctorow
reverse search warrants Manhattan DA served Google with a "reverse search warrant" in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters Cory Doctorow
daily me considered harmful Vast majority of Americans and Europeans believe ad-targeting and feed customization are immoral Cory Doctorow
to opt in just shout no no no and run away Data-broker implicated in bounty-hunters' access to mobile location data lobbied FCC to fight consent for sharing location data Cory Doctorow
ajit fucking pai Trump's FCC chairman won't do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because shutdown Cory Doctorow
google fi Google Fi to carriers: don't sell our customers' location data to third parties Cory Doctorow
the un-truthful ceo Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers' promises to respect our privacy? Cory Doctorow
john legere hero of the skip-tracers Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Cory Doctorow
i see you Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans Cory Doctorow
articles of faith The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
ambulance chasers Ad brokers are selling the fact that you visited an emergency room to ambulance-chasing lawyers Cory Doctorow
DMV California proposes location-tracking, e-ink license plates that display "STOLEN" if a car is boosted Cory Doctorow
extraordinary access The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn't hard) Cory Doctorow